Excel on Your Medical Exams

We asked over 2,000 students how AMBOSS helped improve their USMLE and Shelf exam performance.

The AMBOSS Qbank is awesome. I used it to study for my Surgery subject board and I made one of the highest scores in the class.

Chavez ScottClass of 2018 Meharry Medical College

I used AMBOSS as my primary resource to prepare for my Surgery Shelf exam and am quite happy with my score (96th percentile!)! AMBOSS is a fantastic resource for medical students preparing for their exams.

MD/PhD StudentClass of 2018 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thank you! My two highest Shelf scores were from when I used Amboss. 🙂

M.D. StudentClass of 2019 Harvard Medical School

Wanted you guys to know I scored the highest I have on any Shelf thus far (95th percentile) by a your questions for Neurology. Hoping Family Medicine goes the same way! Thanks!

M.D. StudentClass of 2019 Creighton University School of Medicine

AMBOSS absolutely helped me for the Neuro Shelf. It is by far the highest grade that I’ve gotten on the 5 Shelf exams that I’ve taken so far in medical school.

The AMBOSS Qbank is awesome. I used it to study for my Surgery subject board and I made one of the highest scores in the class.

Chavez ScottClass of 2018 Meharry Medical College

I used AMBOSS as my primary resource to prepare for my Surgery Shelf exam and am quite happy with my score (96th percentile!)! AMBOSS is a fantastic resource for medical students preparing for their exams.

MD/PhD StudentClass of 2018 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thank you! My two highest Shelf scores were from when I used Amboss. 🙂

M.D. StudentClass of 2019 Harvard Medical School

Clerkship students around the country trust AMBOSS

Since launching in 2017, thousands of students have optimized their Shelf prep in their clinical year, relying on AMBOSS' integrated Qbank and Knowledge Library.

*Mean score of 258+-15 for AMBOSS users who have done 1000+ AMBOSS questions. Moreover, we saw a mean score of 245+-15 for a control group of test takers who have done zero AMBOSS questions and a mean score of 253 +-14 for AMBOSS users who have done 500+ AMBOSS questions. (Source: Verified USMLE score reports collected through a survey sent to 2000+ test-takers, which included both non-users and AMBOSS users)

** For administrations between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, the mean and SD for first-time test-takers was approximately 243+-17. Most scores fell between 190 and 270. (Source: USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) Score Report, 2018)

Students who studied with AMBOSS scored on average ten points higher than the national average.

With a median of 258 on the Step 2 CK exam, AMBOSS users who have done 50% or more of the AMBOSS Qbank are most likely to match into their preferred specialty, including those considered to be particularly competitive.

It helped me get beyond the very basics and learn more complex and esoteric concepts and reinforced high-yield topics. The algorithm diagrams outlining workup and management of common surgical problems were also very helpful. Questions were essential; often I saw questions on my actual Shelf I only saw in AMBOSS content and nowhere else.

M.D. Student

Class of 2019 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

AMBOSS is one of the study tools students should actually be using.

Medscape

February 2018

And the students who are doing all of their clinical/pre-clinical work with this resource are so lucky, they have no idea how much better this is than the options before it.

Dr. Nicholas Calotta

Resident Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins

AMBOSS has “the potential to shake UWorld’s grip on USMLE preparation… Early adopters may find themselves ahead of the pack.”

Medscape

February 2018

I’ve honored my last 4 Shelf exams using AMBOSS.

M.D. Student

Class of 2019 University of Colorado School of Medicine

I have honored every shelf since starting AMBOSS. I think it is the secret sauce for shelf exams.

M.D. Student

Reddit

AMBOSS questions force me to think two steps ahead, which is helpful for both the SHELF and the wards.

M.D. Student

Class of 2020 Harvard Medical School

Over 40 percent of students in the clinical years from the top five U.S. medical schools have already accessed AMBOSS.

Business Wire

October 2017

It helped me get beyond the very basics and learn more complex and esoteric concepts and reinforced high-yield topics. The algorithm diagrams outlining workup and management of common surgical problems were also very helpful. Questions were essential; often I saw questions on my actual Shelf I only saw in AMBOSS content and nowhere else.

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